Archive for the 'Writing' Category

Steve Weber has a great article on getting Free Exposure for your niche book on Amazon.com Regular bookstores – even the huge ones with 100,000 titles and an espresso machine – can only hold so many books. Highly specialized titles cannot be found. This is due to the physical limitations shelf space and the cost [...]

The Pew Charitable Trusts conducted research to define who bloggers are. There’s alot more to the report of course, but, in summary this is what bloggers said they write about. Most bloggers say they cover a lot of different topics, but when asked to choose one main topic, 37 percent of bloggers cite “my life [...]

Steve Weber has written a great article about using a website for book marketing. I think he’s right. If you’ve got the discipline to type out a coherent book that’s actually good enough to sell, you’ve got the skills to market your book worldwide very cost effectively and sell it yourself or through vendors like [...]

B5Media is seeking technology related bloggers for their tech channel. They have lots of product reviews, but the need people to write about how to get things done, i.e. web development, style sheets, etc. If this is your bag, check them out…you might have a new income source! Thank to Blogger Jobs

New York Times best selling authors Donald Trump and Robert “Rich Dad” Kiyosaki have teamed up to lend their names to a new book called Why We Want You To Be Rich – Two Men, One Message and they’ve already managed to peeve Wall Street. The average salary on Wall Street is $300,000 so they’re [...]

I got an email today from Michelle Dunn a lady who got her start in home based debt collections. Now she’s writing about the business. She’s using a Cable Access TV show to promote her book and evidently a different author per week is using the show as well. Got a book you want to [...]

Here are my notes on this great article from Joe Vitale via NicheGeek 1. Does it reveal something that nobody knows? 2. Do you have the credentials to give you authority? (Or can you borrow someone’s credentials?) 3. Does your book have lots of engaging stories? The more the better. 4. Does the book challenge [...]

Here’s an interesting article I ran across by Fred Gleek on selling information products online. If all this makes sense to you so far, you are ready to understand something that I call the FUNNEL YSTEM. The funnel system is my model for selling your information products. First, you need to create a skeletal line [...]

Most discussions on copywriting discuss killer words, phrases, headlines, and letter decision obtaining skills in bits and pieces. Few talk about the when the words of your ad copy can hurt you though! This article puts things together in a good, concise way. Does your website send the right message to potential customers? If you [...]

Comic strips take about 55 hours per week to produce for one week’s worth of entertainment. If you’ve ever wanted to work from home as a cartoonist, you might be suprised that you’ll work more than 40 hours per week. Sure you may be working at home in your pajamas, but it IS work… about [...]